Buying batteries, wrapping paper for last minute gifts and a card for the mother-in-law are among the top 20 things people forget every Christmas. Check the full list now to see if you are prepared!

1. Buy Batteries

2. Make sure you have plenty of Sellotape

3. Make ice in your ice cube trays

4. Wrapping paper for last minute gifts

5. Tinfoil for the turkey

6. Napkins for the dinner table

7. Christmas crackers

8. Presents for extended relatives

9. Turkey trimmings – cranberry, apple, mint and bread sauce

10. Matches

11. Toilet roll, you don’t want to run out over the hols!

12. Buy your Christmas jumper – and remember to wear it!

13. Remember to take presents with you when visiting family and friends

14. Ready-made gravy

15. Relative’s favourite tipple

16. A mince pie for Santa on Christmas Eve

17. A vegetarian option

18. A card for the mother-in-law

19. Remember to switch on the oven on Christmas Day morning

20. Put the veg on in plenty of time – why not prepare them the day before?

While others don’t remember to buy a relative’s favourite tipple or crackers to pull over lunch and one in six won’t fill the ice cube trays in preparation for festive drinks. One in 20 People have even forgotten to take the Christmas presents with them when visiting family and friends away from home. Unsurprisingly, more than half of those polled claim to feel their stress levels rising as the big day approaches.

A study of 2,000 adults reveals many struggle to remember everything in the lead up to Yuletide. Buying Sellotape for presents, tin foil to wrap the turkey, and trimmings such as cranberry sauce and gravy for the table are among the most forgotten tasks at Christmas.